Projecting With Advanced Stats (Part 1)

Brian and Joe, thanks for the effort; I try to understand the advanced stats better and any education on it is definitely beneficial. These seem pretty accurate. Is coaching the variable in any advanced statistic?

If you take a look at David Berri's new book "Stumbling on Wins" he has a discussion on coaching that you may find interesting based on stats. I haven't gotten around to reading it, though, so I can't really recommend it. I did really like his first book, though, "Wages of Wins", for what it's worth.

Thanks for the little shout out. As Brian said, this is him, not me. I gave him a little seed of an idea and that was it.

As a note, the metrics are based on offensive and defensive efficiency. So Dallas and San Antonio being so far off is actually more a statement that Dallas was lucky and San Antonio wasn't IMO. San Antionio outscored their opponents by a larger margin and won 5 less games? Seems odd.